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New non-fiction

The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich & Powerful Hide their Money by Edward Snowden Love Among the Ruins: A Memoir of Life and Love in Hamburg, 1945 by Harry Leslie Smith Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life by Sayed Kashua The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham


2nd Annual Jamming in your Jammies

  I Love to Read Month is winding up with Jamming in your Jammies, 7:00 – 7:45 p.m., Tues. Feb. 28 in the Library.  Sponsored by ‘grassroots,’ it features live music and a sing-a-long for kids, and those still kids at heart.  Last year’s event was a huge success and we’re very much looking forward


Shape Magazine

The first issue of our new subscription to Shape, the women’s health & fitness magazine, has arrived.  The March issue can be read in the Library and will be available for circulation once the next issue arrives.


New Crime

Secrets of Death by Stephen Booth The Queen’s Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal Betrayal by Martina Cole Dark Iceland series by Ragnar Jonasson: Snowblind Nightblind Blackout


New Fiction

The House without Windows by Nadia Hashimi An Irish Country Love Story by Patrick Taylor The Last Time I Saw Paris and Summer in Tuscany by Elizabeth Adler Gold Diggers and The Proposal by Tasmina Perry The Gypsy Madonna by Santa Montefiore The Holiday by Erica James Serial Monogamy by Kate Taylor What She Wants


The GCHQ Puzzle Book

pub. Penguin, UK, 2016 Reviewed by Michael Tomlinson Now here’s a book to boggle the minds of even the most avid puzzlers and quiz-nighters of Pinawa! GCHQ is the Government Code and Cypher Head Quarters at Bletchley Park, UK.  During World War II, the people there devised codes for sending secret messages for the war


New (to us) Crime

Murder on K Street by Margaret Truman Rebus series by Ian Rankin: Mortal Causes and Hide & Seek Regan Reilly series by Carol Higgins Clark: Decked, Fleeced, Zapped, Gypped Mitchell & Markby series by Ann Granger: Cold in the Earth and Flowers for his Funeral Fran Varady series by Ann Granger: Risking it All, Watching


New Non-Fiction

The GCHQ Puzzle Book – ‘pit your wits against the people who cracked Enigma’ Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine by Helen Allison & Irene Allison On Your Own Again: the down-to-earth guide to getting through a divorce or separation and getting on with your life by Keith Anderson Lemon-Aid New and


The Chateau is Built!

            There’s always a puzzle on the go in the Library and Barrie Burnett is one of our keenest puzzle-builders.  Here he is at work constructing a tricky 3D puzzle, along with the finished creation. (If you’re reading this in email, click Read in Browser to see photos.)